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The GNSS integer ambiguities: estimation and validation

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4 Best Integer Equivariant <strong>estimation</strong> 67<br />

4.1 <strong>The</strong> BIE estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

4.2 Approximation of the BIE estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70<br />

4.2.1 <strong>The</strong> <strong>integer</strong> set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70<br />

4.2.2 Z-transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />

4.3 Comparison of the float, fixed, <strong>and</strong> BIE estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />

4.3.1 <strong>The</strong> 1-D case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />

4.3.2 <strong>The</strong> 2-D case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

4.3.3 <strong>The</strong> geometry-based case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

4.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83<br />

5 Integer Aperture <strong>estimation</strong> 87<br />

5.1 Integer Aperture <strong>estimation</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />

5.1.1 Class of IA estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88<br />

5.1.2 Distribution functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />

5.1.3 IA <strong>estimation</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />

5.2 Ellipsoidal <strong>integer</strong> aperture <strong>estimation</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92<br />

5.3 Ratio test, difference test <strong>and</strong> projector test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />

5.3.1 Ratio test is an IA estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />

5.3.2 F -Ratio test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97<br />

5.3.3 Difference test is an IA estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99<br />

5.3.4 Projector test is an IA estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

5.4 Integer Aperture Bootstrapping <strong>and</strong> Least-Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . 102<br />

5.4.1 Integer Aperture Bootstrapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103<br />

5.4.2 Integer Aperture Least-Squares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

5.5 Penalized Integer Aperture <strong>estimation</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107<br />

5.6 Optimal Integer Aperture <strong>estimation</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111<br />

5.7 Implementation aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

5.7.1 Determination of the aperture parameter using root finding methods115<br />

5.7.2 Determination of the aperture parameter using simulations . . . 118<br />

5.7.3 Determination of the Integer Aperture estimate . . . . . . . . . 119<br />

5.8 Comparison of the different IA estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

5.8.1 Examples for the geometry-based case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

5.8.2 OIA <strong>estimation</strong> versus RTIA <strong>and</strong> DTIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

5.8.3 IAB <strong>and</strong> IALS <strong>estimation</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131<br />

5.9 Performance of IA <strong>estimation</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131<br />

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